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29 March 2024
 
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Studies of aging and HV break down problems during development and operation of MSGC and GEM detectors for the Inner Tracking System of HERA-B
HERA-B Inner Tracker Collaboration : Y. Bagaturia ; O. Baruth ; H.B. Dreis ; F. Eisele ; I. Gorbunov ; S. Gradl ; W. Gradl ; S. Hausmann ; M. Hildebrandt ; T. Hott ; S. Keller ; C. Krauss ; B. Lomonosov ; M. Negodaev ; C. Richter ; P. Robmann ; B. Schmidt ; U. Straumann ; P. Truoel ; S. Visbeck ; T. Walter ; C. Werner ; U. Werthenbach ; G. Zech ; T. Zeuner ; M. Ziegler ;
Date 9 Apr 2002
Journal ICFA Instrum.Bull. 24 (2002) 54-84
Subject hep-ex
AbstractThe results of five years of development of the inner tracking system of the HERA-B experiment and first experience from the data taking period of the year 2000 are reported. The system contains 184 chambers, covering a sensitive area of about 20 * 20 cm2 each. The detector is based on microstrip gas counters (MSGCs) with diamond like coated (DLC) glass wafers and gas electron multipliers (GEMs). The main problems in the development phase were gas discharges in intense hadron beams and aging in a high radiation dose environment. The observation of gas discharges which damage the electrode structure of the MSGC led to the addition of the GEM as a first amplification step. Spurious sparking at the GEM cannot be avoided completely. It does not affect the GEM itself but can produce secondary damage of the MSGC if the electric field between the GEM and the MSGC is above a threshold depending on operation conditions. We observed that aging does not only depend on the dose but also on the spot size of the irradiated area. Ar-DME mixtures had to be abandoned whereas a mixture of 70% Ar and 30% CO2 showed no serious aging effects up to about 40 mC/cm deposited charge on the anodes. X-ray measurements indicate that the DLC of the MSGC is deteriorated by the gas amplification process. As a consequence, long term gain variations are expected. The Inner Tracker has successfully participated in the data taking at HERA-B during summer 2000.
Source arXiv, hep-ex/0204011
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